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- Every John Grisham Book, Ranked — Where to Start and What to Read Next
- How Reading 30 Minutes a Day Can Transform Your Life — The Science and the Practice
- How Reading Makes You a Better Partner, Parent, and Friend — The Empathy Effect
- How to Build a Reading Habit That Actually Sticks — A Step-by-Step Guide
- How to Raise a Reader: The Science-Backed Approach
- How to Read 50 Books a Year — A Realistic, No-BS Guide
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- The Compound Effect of Reading — What 10 Books a Year Does Over a Decade
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Book Lists
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40- AI and the Future
- Become a Better Manager
- Better Relationships
- Books That Predicted the Future
- Climate & Environment
- Creative Thinking
- Decision-Making Mastery
- Dystopia Essentials
- Emotional Resilience
- Epic Fantasy Journey
- From Freelancer to Agency Owner
- From Zero to Entrepreneur
- Great American Novels
- Health & Longevity
- History Through Stories
- Japanese Literature Journey
- Leadership That Works
- Lives That Inspire
- Magical Realism
- Marketing from Zero
- Master Your Habits
- Modern Literary Fiction
- Mystery & Thriller Starter Pack
- Negotiation & Influence
- Parenting with Science
- Philosophy for Beginners
- Russian Literature Essentials
- Sci-Fi Through Time
- Stoic Philosophy for Modern Life
- The Evolution of Humanity
- The Science of Happiness
- The Startup Playbook
- The Universe from Start to Finish
- Understand How the Economy Actually Works
- Understand Power
- Understand Your Brain
- Understanding Anxiety
- Understanding Money & Wealth
- Understanding the Human Mind
- Women Who Changed Literature
Book Comparisons
100- $100M Offers vs DotCom Secrets
- 12 Rules for Life vs Beyond Order
- 1984 vs Brave New World
- A Brief History of Time vs Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- Atomic Habits vs The Power of Habit
- Atomic Habits vs Tiny Habits
- Attached vs Hold Me Tight
- Beloved vs Invisible Man
- Blue Ocean Strategy vs Good Strategy Bad Strategy
- Born a Crime vs Becoming
- Born a Crime vs Long Walk to Freedom
- Catch-22 vs Slaughterhouse-Five
- Children of Time vs Blindsight
- Circe vs The Song of Achilles
- Cosmos vs A Brief History of Time
- Crime and Punishment vs The Brothers Karamazov
- Crossing the Chasm vs The Lean Startup
- Crucial Conversations vs Radical Candor
- Daisy Jones & The Six vs The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- Daring Greatly vs The Gifts of Imperfection
- Dark Matter vs Recursion
- Deep Work vs Digital Minimalism
- Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain vs Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
- Dracula vs Frankenstein
- Dune vs Foundation
- East of Eden vs The Grapes of Wrath
- Educated vs Hillbilly Elegy
- Educated vs The Glass Castle
- Emotional Intelligence vs Social Intelligence
- Ender's Game vs The Hunger Games
- Essentialism vs Rework
- Fahrenheit 451 vs The Handmaid's Tale
- Flow vs Deep Work
- Fourth Wing vs Throne of Glass
- Freakonomics vs SuperFreakonomics
- Gone Girl vs The Girl on the Train
- Good to Great vs Built to Last
- Grit vs Mindset
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone vs The Fellowship of the Ring
- How to Win Friends and Influence People vs Crucial Conversations
- Influence vs Thinking in Bets
- Klara and the Sun vs Never Let Me Go
- Made to Stick vs Contagious
- Man's Search for Meaning vs Night
- Man's Search for Meaning vs The Power of Now
- Man's Search for Meaning vs When Breath Becomes Air
- Measure What Matters vs High Output Management
- Meditations vs Letters from a Stoic
- Middlesex vs The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success vs Talent Is Overrated
- Neuromancer vs Snow Crash
- Never Split the Difference vs How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Normal People vs Conversations with Friends
- Norwegian Wood vs Kafka on the Shore
- On Writing vs Bird by Bird
- One Hundred Years of Solitude vs The House of the Spirits
- Piranesi vs The Night Circus
- Pride and Prejudice vs Jane Eyre
- Principles vs The 4-Hour Workweek
- Project Hail Mary vs The Martian
- Quiet vs The Introvert Advantage
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking vs Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
- Range vs Outliers
- Rich Dad Poor Dad vs The Psychology of Money
- Sapiens vs Homo Deus
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind vs Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Shoe Dog vs The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Start with Why vs Leaders Eat Last
- Steve Jobs vs Elon Musk
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People vs Getting Things Done
- The Alchemist vs Siddhartha
- The Black Swan vs Antifragile
- The Body Keeps the Score vs Emotional Intelligence
- The Count of Monte Cristo vs Les Miserables
- The Emperors of Rome vs SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
- The Four Agreements vs The Untethered Soul
- The Gene: An Intimate History vs The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- The Great Gatsby vs The Catcher in the Rye
- The Handmaid's Tale vs Parable of the Sower
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy vs The Martian
- The Kite Runner vs A Thousand Splendid Suns
- The Lean Startup vs Zero to One
- The Left Hand of Darkness vs The Dispossessed
- The Lord of the Rings vs A Game of Thrones
- The Name of the Wind vs The Way of Kings
- The Power of Habit vs Grit
- The Remains of the Day vs Never Let Me Go
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck vs The Power of Now
- The Three-Body Problem vs Project Hail Mary
- Thinking in Bets vs Fooled by Randomness
- Thinking, Fast and Slow vs Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
- Thinking, Fast and Slow vs Predictably Irrational
- To Kill a Mockingbird vs Beloved
- Tribe of Mentors vs Tools of Titans
- War and Peace vs Anna Karenina
- Where the Crawdads Sing vs Lessons in Chemistry
- White Teeth vs On Beauty
- Why We Sleep vs Breath
- Why We Sleep vs How We Learn
- Zero to One vs The Innovator's Dilemma
Authors
99- Adam Grant
- Agatha Christie
- Alan Watts
- Albert Camus
- Aldous Huxley
- Amor Towles
- Andy Weir
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Bill Bryson
- Brandon Sanderson
- Brené Brown
- C. S. Lewis
- Cal Newport
- Carl Sagan
- Charles Dickens
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Chuck Norris
- Colleen Hoover
- Cormac McCarthy
- Dan Brown
- Daniel H. Pink
- Dennis Lehane
- Erik Larson
- Ernest Hemingway
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Frank Herbert
- Franz Kafka
- Fredrik Backman
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Gabriel García Márquez
- George Orwell
- George R. R. Martin
- Gillian Flynn
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Haruki Murakami
- Hermann Hesse
- Ian McEwan
- Isaac Asimov
- J. K. Rowling
- J.K. Rowling
- James Clear
- James Patterson
- Jane Austen
- Jim Collins
- John Green
- John Grisham
- John le Carré
- Jojo Moyes
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Khaled Hosseini
- Kristin Hannah
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Lee Child
- Leo Tolstoy
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Margaret Atwood
- Mark Twain
- Matt Haig
- Michael Connelly
- Michio Kaku
- N. K. Jemisin
- Napoleon Hill
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Neal Stephenson
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Neil Gaiman
- Nicholas Sparks
- Oliver Sacks
- Orson Scott Card
- Oscar Wilde
- Paulo Coelho
- Philip K. Dick
- Ray Bradbury
- Richard Dawkins
- Rick Riordan
- Roald Dahl
- Robert Greene
- Ryan Holiday
- Sally Rooney
- Seth Godin
- Simon Sinek
- Stephen Hawking
- Stephen King
- Steven Pinker
- Suzanne Collins
- Tana French
- Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Terry Pratchett
- Tim Ferriss
- Timothy Ferriss
- Tom Clancy
- Toni Morrison
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Veronica Roth
- Virginia Woolf
- Walter Isaacson
- William Gibson
- Yuval Noah Harari